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The Protest Demands in Cuba: Electricity, Water and Freedom

In some cases the power has been restored after the protests or they have been promised incentives such as “bags of food”.

Independent economists do not rule out that the exchange rate will soon exceed the 200 bar and even reach 300 to the USD.

They haven’t been charged or presented before a judge, nor have they been allowed any communication with their lawyers or families.

If none of the 11 candidates garners 50% of the vote a runoff between the top two vote getters will be held on October 30th.

During the first interruption of the internet on Thursday evening we asked the state service provider, Etecsa, for explanations…

Ortega’s order “disrupts daily life,” says expatriated sociologist Maria Teresa Blandon. HRW: “Nicaragua is not Ortega’s private property.”

There is no water, food spoils, children cry; people on the streets look like zombies, sad, silent, hopeless. This is today’s Cuba.

The Havana Historian’s Office “no longer works for the people, all they want is to make money,” says Raydel a pedicab driver.

“People don’t come to work, they leave the country without quitting, because you never know what could happen to you,” one declares.

This time it is Hurricane Ian, but the people of Pinar del Rio remember Gustav, Ike, Isidore, Lily, among others.